Repentance & taqwaFrom the masjid's own video, Sep 3, 2025.
Use Rajab to prepare for Ramadan
“If you do not have the ability, you walk out.”
In one sentence
Rajab should be used as a season of repentance and spiritual housecleaning, preparing for Ramadan by changing personal habits, guarding speech and senses, and modeling devotion for one's children so Allah brings aid and betterment to the Ummah.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Opens with prayers for the sick and deceased, followed by thanks for mosque support.
- Presents Friday and Rajab as blessed opportunities for remembrance, salutations, and preparation for Ramadan.
- Connects global Muslim suffering to personal reform, especially abandoning gossip, lying, insults, and passive complicity.
- Warns that speech, senses, and phone use are recorded and urges accountability in daily choices.
- Encourages parents to choose righteous role models, cultivate love of the Prophet, and teach through example.
- Closes with calls for repentance, forgiveness, steadfastness, and prayers for Muslims.
Try this week
Use Rajab to prepare for Ramadan through gradual fasting, night prayer, Quran recitation, and repentance.
Remove gossip, spying, lying, insults, and harmful speech from gatherings; challenge wrongdoing or leave the gathering.
Before scrolling, listening, or visiting a place, ask whether the choice is pleasing to Allah and acceptable to face on Judgment Day.
Guard the gaze and private parts, especially amid immoral online content.
Teach children love of the Prophet by reading about his character and hadith, while modeling remembrance and limiting leisure phone use to roughly 15, 30 minutes.
Sources the khateeb cited
Surah 3Used to urge fearing Allah and dying as Muslims.
Surah 33Used to connect mindfulness of Allah and truthful speech with sound deeds and forgiveness.
Surah 62Used to explain leaving business and rushing toward the remembrance of Allah on Friday.
Surah 49Used to condemn backbiting by comparing it to eating the flesh of one's dead brother.
Surah 50Used to teach that angels record every word a person speaks.
Surah 24Used to command believers to lower their gaze and guard their private parts.
Quotes
In the khateeb's words
“Change begins with ourselves. If each and every one of us was on the path of betterment and on the path of attaining closeness to Allah”
“If you do not have the ability, you walk out. You leave that gathering for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.”
“Before you listen to something, think, is this something I want to be exposed? On the Day of Judgment, before you go to a place, think,”
“Teach your children through your actions, in your free time. They should see us in the remembrance of Allah .”
Talk about it at home
For the dinner table
The khutbah teaches that Rajab is a chance to clean our hearts and prepare for Ramadan. We should leave gossip, lying, insults, harmful media, and other habits that distance us from Allah. We should pause before using our phones or making choices and ask whether we would be comfortable presenting them before Allah. Parents should teach children by example, helping them love the Prophet and see prayer, Quran, and remembrance in daily life. By improving ourselves and staying steadfast, we hope Allah brings goodness and relief to the Muslim community.
- What is one habit you would like to clean up before Ramadan?
- What do our children learn from how we use our phones?
- When should we speak up, and when should we leave a harmful conversation?
Where it was given
The masjid
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